Aragorn | Exploring Sauron's Fear of a True King

This is a masterpiece , you really are the best Tolkien channel for every analysis of the characters or the lore. Sadly in France we have no one like you to explain it so well. I'm glad your channel exist Steven.

One more thing that makes aragorn the natural enemy of Sauron its the fact that Aragorn its the rightful heir to the ring of Barahir. Saurons ring represents hate, the wish to control other, fury and power while the ring of Barahir represents Loyalty, friendship and the wish to oppose the dark lords. The ring of barahir its almost as old as sauron himself it was that ring which was owned by finrod who challenged him to a battle of magic, it was owned by Beren who together with Luthien challenged him and later would take a silmaril from Sauron's master's crown. It was owned by the Numenoreans who helped Gilgalad defeat him at the begining of the second age, Elendil had it when sauron was defeated in the war of the last alliance and finally the ring went to be owned (i believe) by Eldarion the first High king of the 4th age. The 2 rings help differentiate the 2 kings from one another and in my personal opinion The ring of barahir crowns the true king of men. GREAT video btw.

Mortal men from a greater lineage are more likely to wield power and influence and decide the fate of middle earth. Yet. Samwise. A gardener and simple and loyal friend to Frodo and his famous uncle. He is the greatest hero of all. He carried on when even the “heroes” of ancestry and blood couldn’t go on. And that is Tolkiens lesson to us all. Anyone can be a hero. Through love and through morality. Anyone can be strong.

A bit of a deeper dive into a couple of topics I have looked at in the past: Aragorn's kingly nature and Sauron's fear of what he represents. Hope you enjoy! Support the channel: www.patreon.com/stevengibb

I quite enjoy these long form videos, where you actually explore the 'rabbit holes'. The calm delivery makes this a great listen when winding down at the end of the day.

The Ring seems, naturally, to be magical. It seems like Tolkien's vision of magic is something along the lines of being able to will things to be a certain way. The Rings were designed to enhance this power in certain ways. The Three were designed by the Elves to enhance their will to keep things from decaying, which is actually a form of evil to which Elves are susceptible. All of them seem to have power to shape the minds of others. I sort of think the One enhances the ability to dominate the will of others, the power by which anyone can shape the world. Aragorn, being a descendant of both Maia and Elves, has this kind of will, to shape reality, and could use the Ring to dominate the wills of others. Sauron put his power to dominate into the ring, and now anyone with similar ability to dominate can level up by using it.

Of all the channels devoted to Tolkein's works, this is arguably the finest.

Thank you for this video of my favorite character in The Lord of the Rings.

Absolutely wonderful work; these videos last me a long time. Thanks for taking the time to make this, and high production value as always!

This deeper analysis is truly amazing. I hope you do more.

I think about Earnur being egged on into a duel with the Witch-king a lot. It's interesting how Tolkien had the rule of kings in Gondor end due to what may be the last king's pride or fear of looking like a coward. How does that compare to Fingolfin challenging Morgoth to a one-on-one? Or to Morgoth accepting Fingolfin's challenge? Or to Aragorn revealing himself to Sauron through the Orthanc-stone, which hastened the Siege of Minas Tirith? Was there pride in Aragorn's provoking of Sauron, just justified pride where Earnur's was unjustified, or was the provoking purely strategic?

Aragorn is also a descendent of Anarion through his ancestor Firiel of Gondor who married Arvedui the Last King of Arthedain.

Nice to see you are making more videos again ! Though ,I was confused due to the change of the channel name . It’s a very good topic you have here . I see a lot of people asking those questions . Sadly they are too lazy to try understand the answers from the books,or look for good sources like your channel .

Your videos are works of art. Thank you!

I think that the biggest practical reason Sauron feared Aragorn is something you only glanced over at this video, not giving it the emphasis it deserved. That thing being Ar-Pharazon and his Numenorian host. During the second age when Sauron was at the height of his power he proclaimed himself as king of all men and thought no-one would dare challenge him. Ar-Pharazon, the proud Numenorian king, did so, seeing himself as the king of all men, being the king of the strongest kingdom of men: Numenor, at the height of its power. Thus Ar-Pharazon raised a host and declared war on Sauron. Sauron quickly realized his host was no match for the Numenorians, surrendered and humbled himself before Ar-Pharazon. In hind sight we all know this was a ruse and part of Sauron's plan to bring the downfall of Numenor but in the moment Sauron was genuinely afraid of this great Numenorian host, and one could say that this plan of his as it happened in the lore was actually his plan B, a plan he improvised after seeing the full might of Numenor marching against him. Aragorn, being of Numenorian blood himself, was a symbol of this threat. Sauron feared Aragorn too could raise a mighty host of men that could challenge his own. He was scarred by a great host of men once, he wasn't about to be caught, with his pants down so to speak, again. Moreover you forgot that before the Kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor was actually a single kingdom of men, created by the exiles of Numenor. Gondor and Arnor were 2 kingdoms that split off from this united kingdom, much as Arnor split apart like you mentioned in the video. Aragorn's lineage meant that he had claim to both kingdoms(Gondor and Arnor) thus being in a unique position to reunite the kingdom of the exiles of Numenor. This would have been the greatest threat Sauron has faced since his face off against Numenor, and of course means that all his plans of weakening the race of men would have failed.

This video is going to be my number one reference, for my friends that have only seen the adaptations. (Since they won't read 🙄)

As far as I'm concerned, Mr Gibb's word is canon.

Great job my friend. Excellent addition to the channel!

The reforged blade, the renewal of friendship between elves & dwarves, and the reincarnated Gandalf must have terrified Sauron, but Manwe's eagles playing limited but pivotal roles, truly must have caused so much fear and doubt in the Dark Lord.

For all the “problematic” bloodline/race issues in Middle-earth, it’s worth noting that individuals are still more than their ancestry. We’re explicitly told, in a story where time makes things worse, not better, that Aragorn is more like Elendil than any who came before him. So on top of everything else, Aragorn has something special about him individually.